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Alexander Yanov (1857-1918)

Embroidered Picture by Florence Satterlee, American Decorative Arts

Gift of Livingston Satterlee Leeds, 1985 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Silk embroidered with silk and metallic threads

East Bergholt Church, 1811, John Constable

Madonna and Child (Fragment), 1285, Duccio di Buoninsegna

Artaxerxes Receiving the Head of Cyrus (and detail) by Peregrino da Cesena

Italian, c. 1490/1510

niello print

Alessandro Allori c.1570

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Jean Goujon

Diane and the Stag

Madonna and Child, 1516, Hans Baldung

Christ Appearing to Mary, 1311, Duccio di Buoninsegna

A woman’s hands

Fragment of a painted mummy shroud, Roman Egypt, late 2nd–3rd century A.D.

This fragment once belonged to a portrait of a woman painted in tempera on a linen shroud that was wrapped around her body before burial. All that remains is a view of her hands, which are ornamented with jewels, including a ring on every finger of her left hand. These rings find parallels in actual objects from this period and offer a poignant reminder that early rings often survive because their owners were sent into the next world with the jewelry they cherished in life. The pinky finger of the left hand wears a key ring, a type first developed in Roman antiquity.